ELECTION PETITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 8

ELECTION PETITION

MR. ALLEN BELL SEm NEW CONTEST BAY OF ISLANDS SEAT (from Our Our it Correspond^) KAITAIA. To-day. Confident that a petition against th election of Mr. H M. Ruslnvorth was returned for ihe Bay ol Islands seat, with a majority of two vote, after a magisterial recount, will T successful. Mr. Allen Bell says that h is prepared to fight the contest ov*. °The decision to petition against the return ot Mr. Rushworth has I** made by Mr. Bell's supporters r n to be submitted that errors were m-J" in the counting of the votes, andT? certain serious irregularities occurwa in tlie conduct of the election a electoral court will probablv sit ■ January. lr > Mr. Bell said that at first he unfavourable to a petition lodged but he had finally concur™ in the wishes of his supporters r» is sure the petition will succeed if returned will resign and contest the by-election. - The petition, which has been filed made by John William McAuley, of Oka hail. The official announcement, sethnforth the grounds upon which the net? tion is made, appears on page 3 of ft 1 ' issue. COUNTRY PARTY MEETS CONSIDERATION OF PETITION Press Association WHANGAREI, Thursday. A meeting of Country Party mem* bers was held at Oliaeawai this afternoon to consider the position in rel gard to the Bay of Islands seat. Tha meeting- was mainly in camera i committee was appointed to deal the situation arising out of a petition for another election, whijh it was uiiderstood is to be lodged. Citizens Say—(To the Editor) “SHE’S A MACDONALD, YE KEN< Sir, “The Lookout Man” is quite correcC in his reference to the ancient clan name of Macdonald being spell right out without a capital “D.” To a tm® Highlander, there rs no greater abomination than the way the average Sassenach massacres a surname beginning with Mac. A Dunedin newspaper which ought to have known better, invariably used M with an apostrophe, i.e., M’Donald, M’Kay, and so cn. As a general rule, true Highland surnames prefixed by Mac are spelt right out, Macdonald, Mackay, etc. —MACSPORRAN. “THAT NEWMARKET MEETING" Sir.—As one who attended the above meet* ins, I would like to protest at the inaccuracy of the reports that appeared in the three Auckland newspapers in respect to the voting on the resolution. I made a special point of looking around those assembled, to see if there were many holding up their hands “against/* and I failed to find one. By this I take it the chairman, Mr. Newport, was, under these circumstances, fully justified in accepting the resolution as being carried without & single dissentient. While writing on Newmarket topics, I noticed that a councillor has published another statement in the Press regarding accidents in Broadway. This matter was referred to at the above meeting, and as the councillor had ample opportunity to be present at same and bring the question up, it does not appear to me to be quite the proper thing to lie low when opportunity presented itself, and then immediately afterwards issue a statement to the Press. C. J. HOUSEGO. THE CREATION Sir, — Mr. Rimmer would save good space if he kept to the point, instead of indulging in mock heroics about my anonymity. It should be hardly necessary to state that our subject is entirely impersonal, and our arguments quit© unaffected by the identity of either of us. Mr. Rimmer further states that he is not in the least interested in my identity. Then why on earth does he make such a pother about it, and use it for an excuse to make semi-abusive remarks? If readers will turn to my first letter, they will find that I nowhere referred to Professors Dana and Guyot as doctors of divinity. Mr. Rimmer mentioned two professors, and one D.D., and my sentence quoted by him merely reiterates that fact. Moreover, to point his argument, he makes a peculiarly arbitrary distinction between science and higher criticism. In* sofar as the latter has any value, R must be scientific. .. Characteristically, Mr. Rimmer fan* to appreciate my purpose in quoting Bishop Barnes and Dr. R. H(not Professor Peake). It is delign** ful to find him imagining that I to turn to them for help. I cou* have filled this page with Q u . ota^? f ? from scientific works utterly dis<ajajing the Bible story of creation, but ta object of those given was to show modern religious leaders axe say ** about that story. These leaders by no means scientific innovators, * have been compelled by the gro of knowledge among their flocks to cept many commonplaces of acien * among which is the irreconciliDiiuy Genesis with scientific truths. Mr. Rimmer is compelled to adroit Genesis is wrong, for he now sta • “I never said there was light upo®. earth before the sun existed. good! If he will turn to the w which he is at such pains to as a Divine revelation, he Y! the order of creation light, life, and then sun. Plainly, the wriumj of Genesis were wrong in this other things, and your correspono* would be well advised to admlt - 1 bestead of preferring charges oi representation against me t . g Finally, when Mr. Rimmer says content with old-fashioned C 1 tis . company, I would suggest he is fied only with the company tna - ports his preconceptions, and. necessity will be old-fashioned. - t 0 modern science gives scant his views. Whatever was the c the time of Romanes, the presen ber of illustrious scientific nanVicrothe side of orthodoxy is indeed m scopic. AJB.C. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS Geo. Bowen (Huntly).— reference to the message o you write. Could you supp l?L nX iniat® further details and the apP gun. date of publication?—Ed., j cor“Fairplay.”—What you say way magisrect, but the decision of tn trate must be accepted, and w bidi paper cannot accept le f ter Tf police cast doubts on the ve E2£ lty «s lin . court witnesses. —Ed.. The » * yotj “R.D.” —lt would be necessary to sign your full name to h this kind.—Ed* The Sun,